Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion

Built in the 1880s, this
famous indigo-blue Chinese
Courtyard House in Georgetown
was the residence of Cheong
Fatt Tze, a prominent Chinese
figure in the newly
established Penang Straits
Settlement during the 19th
century. The mansion was
built
by master craftsmen brought
in
especially from China, who
used their skills to fashion
the mansion with 38 rooms, 5
granite-paved courtyards, 7
staircases and 220 windows.

Rescued from the perils of
development in the 1990s by a
small group of Heritage
preservationists led by
Laurence Loh, the Cheong Fatt
Tze mansion possesses
splendid
Chinese timber carvings,
Gothic louvre windows, russet
brick walls and porcelain cut
& paste decorative shard
works, art nouveau stained
glass panels, Stoke-on-Trent
floor tiles and Scottish cast
iron work.Its layout is based
on feng-shui principles, and
filled with rare a collection
of sculptures, carvings,
tapestries and other antiques.

In 2000, the Cheong Fatt Tze
mansion received the
inaugural
Unesco Asia-Pacific Heritage
Conservation Award, selected
as the 'Most Excellent
Project' in the Asia Pacific
Rim following its RM7.6
milllion restoration works.

Getting Here

By Foot or TaxiCheong Fatt Tze Mansion is on
Lebuh Leith, in between Lebuh
Chulia and Jalan Sultan Ahmad
Shah.

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